A Newsletter Valuing Change

March/April, 1999

Tips for Change

Dealing with Stress

• Schedule wisely.
• Plan to deliver more than you promise.
• Treat problems as opportunities.
• Set small achievable goals.
• Take deep breaths.
• Create boundaries.
• Talk confidentially with someone.
• Laugh often.
• Allow extra time for everything you do.
• Spend quality time with yourself.
• Take time outs.
• Let things go.

Acknowledgment

Giving a sincere acknowledgement of someone's qualities is very "empowering". It's gratifying to tell the people in our life we see their special gifts or attributes. Remember how you felt when someone recognized a special quality of yours? Let those around you know they are creative or smart as well as complimenting them on a job well done. Watch how it lands.

Failure a good thing?

Absolutely! Failure provides important feedback. Failure creates opportunity to make corrections and adjustments in your strategy and goal setting. This allows for future success. Failure also means you got out of your comfort zone and tried.

Visualize Happiness

The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey is a book for everyone that wants to succeed at the game of life. It is not just for tennis players. The book applies, as the title suggests, to the inner game -- the game in our mind. The book helps the reader realize how critical it is to improve our relationship with the voice in our head.

Gallwey points out the greatest difficulty is changing habits. He suggests, in order to change habits we must: 1) get a clear picture of our desired outcome; 2) trust our self; 3) learn from both successes and failures; and 4) see our behavior non-judgmentally.

Buy this book

Maureen Mueller: "We all procrastinate at one time or another. The most unfortunate procrastination of all is to put off being happy."
Be Happy!

Marketing

Six ways to get visible:

1. Carve out a niche.
2. Commit to a focus.
3. Pick a wining name.
4. 4. Have a point of view.
5. 5. Get the work out.
6. Stay top of the mind.

Thanks to Deborah Arron author of What Can You Do With A Law Degree? for this submission.